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Massively OP’s not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our blooper award for best article joke (almost) nobody got. And the winner is… Every once in a while, Eliot will ask me if he can write an entire post as nothing but song lyrics. And I can’t remember the last time I turned him down. So when teeny-tiny indie grimdark MMO Mad World teased some gameplay trailers, well, an obvious opportunity presented itself. All around me are computer platforms, Want to nominate another winner? Let us know in the comments, and don’t forget to check out our serious MMO awards while you’re at it. … [Read more...] about Massively OP’s 2018 Blooper Awards: Best article joke (almost) nobody got

Recently, Square Enix invited Final Fantasy XIV fans to vote on their favorite music tracks from what has become a very expansive and acclaimed score. The 50 top-voted pieces were compiled into a new album called The Best which has been on-and-off the market ever since mid-November. Apart from being a little put back at the $50 price tag and the difficult acquisition of the album (c’mon, sell digitally already!), I think this is a wonderful idea. FFXIV dearly love the music of this game and for good reason — it’s loaded with terrific tunes. However, we all have our favorites, and some of mine didn’t make it at all onto that album while others that I don’t care for (such as over-long boss fight pieces with heavy choir) shot up to the top. So I thought I’d deliver my current “best” picks for FFXIV’s score according to what I enjoy listening to while I’m driving in the car or on a chocobo. I’ll even throw in a bonus seventh … [Read more...] about Jukebox Heroes: My ‘best’ FFXIV music picks

Last week, we introduced the first part of our guide to the best upcoming, in-development indie MMORPGs — yes, the list was so long that we had to split it lest our CMS explode! So this week we’re back with the other half of our list, a quick and dirty guide to many of the indie MMORPGs in development and some of the key points about each. Hint: We’re not asking whether they are a sandbox with open world PvP because of course they are. As a side note, we won’t be covering most of the survival sandbox and mere multiplayer titles, as that would be too great for the scope of this guide. And if you’re interested in these games, then you’ll definitely want to track our Make My MMO and Betawatch columns. On with part two! The brainchild of ex-SOE CEO John Smedley, Hero’s Song is a mash-up of MMO, action RPGs, and customizable worlds that are influenced by which gods are selected to influence them. Pixel art and a 2-D isometric … [Read more...] about Massively OP’s guide to the best upcoming indie MMORPGs, part two

This week’s Massively Overthinking should be a fun one — and hopefully it’ll contrast nicely with the Game Archaeologist column we ran last week, which covered some bizarre launch commercials, trailers, and videos from more classic days of our genre. MOP Patron and Das Tal boss Alexander Zacherl asks, “What’s the best trailer ever released for an MMO and why?” Let’s have it! What’s the best trailer for an MMO — or at least your favorite? Vid links or it didn’t happen! Andrew Ross (@dengarsw): Why is this even a discussion? The winner is clear, and disagreeing puts you at risk of being hacked by a fan of non-traditional hair styles. I ain’t gonna risk that. Mr. T clearly wins this. Brendan Drain (@nyphur): It has to be EVE Online’s “This is EVE” trailer from 2014, which is by far the most genuine trailer for the game ever made. EVE’s trailers have always been cinematic masterpieces, but … [Read more...] about Massively Overthinking: The best MMORPG trailers of all time

HTML5 browsers have, in recent years, begun to gain more and more market share. That has made a great deal of developers quite excited, as they can start leaving their cumbersome Flash players for more elegant, faster HTML5 media players. If you’re looking to make the switch, here are ten HTML5 audio players that you can pop on your website in lieu of a Flash player!
1. MediaElement
MediaElement might be the most popular HTML5 player on this list, and for good reasons: it supports both audio and video, it’s written in pure, clean HTML5 and CSS, and it’s highly backward-compatible. It includes custom Flash and Silverlight players that will work with older browsers, and those players are designed to mimic the normal MediaElement player. The player has plugins available for most of the major CMSs like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and others. It plays well with other custom frameworks due to its ease of modification, and it is easy to extend the framework via JavaScript … [Read more...] about 10 Best HTML5 Audio Players